Public hearing next week on brief for developing east coast
The next stage in progressing major developments at St Peter Port and St Sampson’s harbours is moving forward with a public hearing on the draft local planning brief for the areas scheduled for next week.
The public hearing will take place at 10am next Tuesday at Les Cotils. It is the latest stage of an independent planning inquiry which must take place before a local planning brief can be brought before the States.
The draft brief identifies opportunities for change and enhancement of the Harbour Action Areas and will facilitate and encourage development to come forward along the east coast.
It intentionally does not prescribe specific developments on specific sites, but adds detail to the Island Development Plan, aiming to ensure that the right type of change and development comes forward and that the relevant associated issues are considered.
The public hearing comes after two opportunities for islanders to provide representations, the second of which closed on Monday.
Anyone is welcome to attend the hearing, but only those who have made representations will be able to speak. Eight individuals or parties having already indicated a desire to do so.
Once the independent planning inspector has considered the discussions from the hearing, he will produce a report making recommendations to the Development & Planning Authority, which will decide whether or not to include those recommendations in its policy letter to the States.
‘This local planning brief is a crucial piece of work to make sure that we can bring forward development on our east coast and so I want to say thank you to those who’ve engaged with the independent inquiry process so far to help us achieve this,’ said DPA president Victoria Oliver.
‘Although this doesn’t prescribe what specific developments will come forward and what they might look like, it provides the necessary foundations for the right type of investment in our harbours for the next 10 years.’
